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@Travel-Junkie, looks like a great plugin.

I have some question:
I need the possibility to attach an event with a group.
If the group is a private hidden group, the events attached to this group should be visible only to the group members.
Does the group events work also with hidden groups? and will the hidden event be visible for group members in the event calender view?

Also I need the possibility, to restrict an event to n attenders. So if for example max attenders == 3, after the 3 attender, the registration need to be closed.
I would be grateful if you could answer me my questions thanks ;-Sven

I’m actually having trouble with the mulit-network plugin. The registration page links back to the main site? And all sign-ups are under site #1? Am I missing something.

I would do an overlay when people hit the registration page. That way before they even sign up they agree to being over 18. Google it. There are a ton of tuts on this type of thing.

PLUGIN UPDATED!!! https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/

Just have: No can’t create a blog from the initial registration page, but yes can create a blog once signed in which is pretty telling really. You do not have a clean install at work here it is a modified one, remove any and ALL mods made, any plugins that might be messing things up, add the admin bar back in while testing, in fact do not hide the admin bar as it’s still creating mal-formed markup using the admin option to hide it which I thought had been fixed after I raised the issue/ticket; what version of BP are you running?

Please remove my sign up.

I’m using this plugin : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/

I have restricted registration only by invitation , yet I got one registration ….

have to done all the spam blocking techniques mentioned here to my installation … but did some definitely

Have you enabled the registration of both users and blogs in the main site options?

Have you definitely enabled Multi Site capability – is this actually WP 3.0.1 or the now slightly older WPMU you are using?

Have you set DNS wild card entry to allow sub domains to work?

require( ‘./wp-load.php’ );
require( ‘./wp-blog-header.php’ );
require($_SERVER . “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php”);

These are the dependencies for the BP registration process. Once all 3 are loaded, the form will work.

I have a custom BP installation in which I bypass the main BP index.php file and use WPMU and BP functions as I need them.

To get the slugs to work, I change my .htaccess file as such:

RewriteRule . index.php?slug=1 [L,NC,QSA]

and then my index.php as such:

if (isset($_GET)) require( ‘./wp-blog-header.php’ );

In that way, the BP header is only loaded when a slug is used, and I can bypass it otherwise.

I spent some time yesterday to try to stop the constant flow of spam users and blogs being created on my site. Here is what I did…
1- deleted extra registration.php in bbpress folder
2- changed reg. slug
3- installed humanity
4- installed Si Captcha
5- added code from above to htaccess

I am still get about 20-30 per day.
Is there a way to tell if these are humans or bots creating these accounts and blogs?
I don’t know what else to do, any ideas? ( I really don’t want to disable blog creation during registration)

Re: new members – did you create them in the admin system or through the BuddyPress registration pages?

To confirm: you can use custom permalinks without problem in the default wp install.. Changing them as suggested to /%category%/%postname% ?

If that’s the case, try installing BuddyPress plugin again using the automatic install, switch to the bp-default theme, and let us know the outcome

If you deactivate buddypress..can you create and use custom permalinks in your WordPress install? Try something like /%category%/%postname%/

Do they work, can you go to page, post and category pages with custom permalinks turned on?

You need to get this working on your base WordPress before installing BuddyPress

I’m using:
– Buddypress Humanity
– WPMU-Block-Spam-By-Math
– SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
and
.htaccess
# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .register*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourhomedomain.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

Add this to wp-config.php `define( “BP_REGISTER_SLUG”, “your-registration-slug” );` and change ‘your-registration-slug to your own registration slug.

Edit * the wp-config.php file is situated in the root of your wordpress installation

I am very new to this , I got this topic’s link from a post by @pcwriter in a topic in buddydev.com
and reading so much about spam/splog and fighting it I’m am overwhelmed and worried and exhausted even thinking about the …….
I have read this topic , understood some and implemented some and also didn’t understood some too …..
I ask a very stupid question !!!
How to change the registration slug ?
who ever replys the above question please oblige this foolish novice (that is me) with a complete walkthrough …
.
I am also using Secure Invite plugin , will this slug change effect this invitation plugin ? if so how to battle it ?
.
Thanks to all and special thanks to @pcwriter for all usefull information …

I cant belive there still no solution to this problem. Or is it?
Why cant it just be a core function to BuddyPress that let us moderate signups?

I removed/commented out the create a blog option from the member registration form while still keeping blog creation on. I only left access to the bp create a blog form for users is_loggedin Only. By tucking it away within the member profile for the member to create a blog later during their profile detailing/editing process, I was able to get to the point where I only needed to delete crap members that get in, not crapmembers + crapblogs that get created at one time wasting all my low number blogIDs!

At the end of the day, if you’re running BPmu you don’t really need to have insta-blog. The option to create a blog is link within the member profile “dash” that they can get around to when they feel settled. I’ve found it’s easier for the user to get their profile up and running first and then breathe and think of a good blog name/url after they’ve logged in for the first time.

but if you really really want instablog, which really isn’t that instant due to the wp-admin of it all. Plus, it’s not really instant because there are too few frontend posting options in member themes for the user to start posting right away, so no need for instablog in registration process, so just indicate to your user that they can do that part later. if you still want blog creation at first registration, then you can keep up the good fight by zapping spammers and their blogs.

A lot of us try to help answering questions on these boards, but we’re just volunteers doing this for fun. We seem to get most issues replied to within a two day period, which I think is very good.

Regarding above — neither of you have provided sufficient detail (have a look at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/ for the sort of information we’d find useful). Does WordPress (without any plugins or custom themes installed) send emails correctly, for example on user registration?

“The site was originally installed on WordPressMU”

You can convert a WPMU install with only one site to single WP, it’s not hard to do and there are tutorials online on how to go about it. But none take BuddyPress into consideration and you’re on WP 3.0.1, so all bets are off. I would suggest experimenting on test install first and see how that works out, taking into consideration avatar and media upload paths. Main work would be on database. In the meantime, I assume that in your dashboard > Super Admin > Options > only user registration is allowed.

As far as I know you can’t. I’d leave it on and try this here:
http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-added-banned-email-domain-check-to-multisite-buddypress-registration/#topic

bumping it up with a simple solution via a filter
http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-added-banned-email-domain-check-to-multisite-buddypress-registration/#topic

the check is just missing in the buddypress signup process vs multisite